'Bipartisan' debt forum with Ron Johnson and Mark Pocan puts hyperpartisanship on display [View all]

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You gotta hand it to the Bipartisan Issues Group (BIG), a group of college students who want to bridge the partisan divide so that someday, something might be done about the national debt, which casts a dark cloud on debate over nearly all government initiatives.

On Thursday, Alex Holland, a UW student and the group’s president and co-founder, and his group pulled off a coup by getting two U.S. lawmakers from Wisconsin, Rep. Mark Pocan of Madison and Sen. Ron Johnson of Oshkosh, in the same room to discuss how to fix the problem.

“If we come together, if we put our politics aside, we can solve these issues,” Holland told a crowd of more than 200 students, faculty and others Thursday night at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

Pocan and Johnson then proceeded to demonstrate just how unlikely that would be in the current political climate.
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